"I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.”

Source : Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.340, Simon and Schuster
“The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]”
“Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?”

Source : Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).
“Vote early and vote often.”
“There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.”
“Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used. But what man should seek in regard to nature is not a complete domination but a modus vivendi - that is, a manner of living together, a coming to terms with something that was here before our time and will be here after it. The important corollary of this doctrine, it seems to me, is that man is not the lord of creation, with an omnipotent will, but a part of creation, with limitations, who ought to observe a decent humility in the face of the inscrutable.”
“I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.”

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